The introduction of electric power has led to many advancements in the modern home. One of these advancements is the use of light bulbs to illuminate an area while it is being used. While lighting is widely used for general illumination, it is also imperative to have a good point source light for certain activities such as mechanical work, wood working, electronics soldering, etc. As such, some activities may also require reorienting a point source light to highly illuminate a specific area that requires detail. The purpose of this project is to facilitate this need by designing a fully functional articulating light system with the ability to reorientate to a gesture-controlled location.

In the figure below, you will see the block diagram of the design for group 9.

Figure 1: Block Diagram

In the diagram above, the connections between components for the ArticuLight is shown. We will be using a 120V AC power source wall outlet plug-in. The power from the wall outlet will then flow through a voltage regulator which in turns connects to our microcontroller, which in our case, we used at ATMEGA328. Furthermore, the power supply was split in two where 120V went to the light as shown in the diagram.

The ATMEGA328 is our processor chip for our design and was programmed through using an Arduino boot loader. The ATMEGA328 is then connected to the Jetson Nano which sends a message to the camera. The camera then recognizes a gesture and sends the recognition back to the Jetson Nano to do the desired command.

Once the given command is recognized, the servo motors recieve the relayed message from the ATMEGA and activate the pulley system. The pulley system will then react and postion the arm that controls the light on it, to the desired position that was given by the user through the use of the gesture.

The document below contains the divide and conquer paper for group 9.

The document below contains the Senior Design 1 paper for group 9.

The slides for the critical design review are seen below:

Video 1: Critical Design Review

In the video below, group 9 demonstrates their design in action. This specific demonstration is the midterm demonstration.

Video 2: Midterm Demonstration

The document below contains the conference paper for group 9.

The slides for the final presentation are seen below:

In the video below, group 9 demonstrates the final presentation for their project.

Video 4: Final Demonstration

The document below contains the final documentation paper for group 9.

Links below to download source files for this project